Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com, euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com, chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com, andreas(at)proxel(dot)se, eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system
Date: 2019-03-21 01:32:23
Message-ID: 2b6890db-acca-8f44-de4f-f43d70d57000@2ndquadrant.com
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On 3/21/19 1:49 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 08:41:32AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>>> Can someone describe a scenario where this (name of the binary not
>>> clearly indicating it's related postgres) causes issues in practice? On
>>> my system, there are ~1400 binaries in /usr/bin, and for the vast
>>> majority of them it's rather unclear where do they come from.
>
> Naming conflict because our binary names are too generic? createdb
> could for example be applied to any database, and not only Postgres.
> (I have 1600 entries in /usr/bin on a Debian installation.)
>

Maybe. Do we actually know about such cases? Also, isn't setting
--prefix a suitable solution? I mean, it's what we/packagers do to
support installing multiple Pg versions (in which case it'll conflict no
matter how we rename stuff) anyway.

regards

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Tomas Vondra http://www.2ndQuadrant.com
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